Gostenhof
Multicultural old suburb of street art and bars, once home to a merchant's famed citrus garden.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Gostenhof in Nuremberg follows Johann Christoph Volkamer, a seventeenth-century merchant who kept a garden here just outside the old city. It turns on his obsession with citrus, the plants he ordered from across the world, and his sharp opinions about the gardeners who tended them. Best heard on a street corner in the neighbourhood locals call GoHo.
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